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Midterm Review (Chapter 1 and 2)

This document contains a midterm review with multiple choice questions covering topics from chapters 1-5 of the course material, including: - Network commands like ipconfig, ping, tracert, netstat, and arp and their functions - OSI model layers and responsibilities like addressing, encryption, handshaking - Network hardware like motherboards, storage devices, bus systems - Network ports, protocols, and services like DNS, SMTP, FTP, DHCP - IP addressing schemes, subnetting, and network devices like routers, switches, and gateways - TCP/IP concepts like sockets, ports, and protocols like ICMP, IGMP, HTTP, UDP The midterm allows open books and covers

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Midterm Review (Chapter 1 and 2)

This document contains a midterm review with multiple choice questions covering topics from chapters 1-5 of the course material, including: - Network commands like ipconfig, ping, tracert, netstat, and arp and their functions - OSI model layers and responsibilities like addressing, encryption, handshaking - Network hardware like motherboards, storage devices, bus systems - Network ports, protocols, and services like DNS, SMTP, FTP, DHCP - IP addressing schemes, subnetting, and network devices like routers, switches, and gateways - TCP/IP concepts like sockets, ports, and protocols like ICMP, IGMP, HTTP, UDP The midterm allows open books and covers

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Midterm Review (Chapter 1 and 2)

1. Which of the following commands has generated the following figure?

a. Netstat
b. Ipconfig /all
c. Ping
d. Arp → Arp -a
e. All of the above

2. Which of the following commands has the following figure?

a. Netstat -a
b. Ipconfig /all
c. Ping -a
d. Arp -a
e. All of the above

3. Which of the following OSI layers is responsible for addressing? (IP addressing)
a. Layer 1
b. Layer 2
c. Layer 3 → Network layer
d. Layer 4
e. Layer 7

4. Which of the following OSI layers is responsible for encryption?


a. Layer 7
b. Layer 6 - the presentation layer does encryption, compression, data formatting
(text, video, audio), language
c. Layer 5
d. Layer 4
5. The network IEEE 802.11 is defined by which of the following OSI layers?
a. Network
b. Application
c. Data Link
d. Physical → IEEE 802.11 is a topology (physical network arrangement)

6. Which of the following OSI layer is responsible for handshaking?


a. Layer 4
b. Layer 5 → The Session Layer
c. Layer 6
d. Layer 7
e. Layer 1

7. Which of the following hardware devices is responsible for holding the time and date
information?
a. RAM
b. ROM
c. Hard drive
d. Motherboard
e. CMOS

8. A touchscreen is an example of which of the following categories of hardware devices?


a. Input
b. Output
c. I/O
d. Primary Storage
e. Secondary Storage

9. A hard disk is an example of which of the following categories of devices?


a. Input
b. Output
c. I/O
d. Primary storage device
e. Secondary storage device

10. How many different bus systems exist in a computer?


a. 2
b. 3
c. 4 → Data, system, control, address
d. 6
e. None of the above
11. What is the port number of DNS
a. 21
b. 25
c. 80
d. 110
e. None of the above → the port number for DNS is 53

12. The PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) protocol belongs to which of the following OSI layers?
a. Layer 3
b. Layer 5
c. Layer 7
d. Layer 6 → The presentation layer
e. Layer 2
● All encryption protocols like PGP, S/MIME, SSL (Secure Socket Layer), TLS (Transport
Layer Security), AES (Advanced Encryption System), belong to layer 6.

13. Consider a MAC address of the following address: AB-34-56-0C-89-0A


a. AB-34-56-0C-89-0A
b. AB-34-56
c. 0C-89-0A
d. AB-34-56-0C
e. 89-0A
● The first 6 numbers are the manufacturer ID
● The last 6 numbers are the device ID
Midterm Review 2 (Chapter 4)
1. Which of the following commands provides information about the active TCP and UDP
connections?
a. Ipconfig /all
b. Tracert
c. Netstat - active connections (TCP and UDP)
d. Ping
e. Pathping

2. The address 10.43.130.87:23 is referred to as a(n)


a. IPv4
b. IPv6
c. Port
d. Physical Node
e. Socket - combination of a port number and an IP addresss

3. Which of the following commands is used to query a DNS server?


a. Ipconfig
b. Tracert
c. Nslookup
d. Nbtstat
e. ping

4. Which type of DNS record identifies an email server?


a. AAAA record
b. CNAME record
c. MX record
d. PTR record
e. SRV record

5. Which of the following servers hides internal IP addresses from the external networks?
a. DNS
b. NAT - server which hides internal IP address from external users
c. DHCP
d. Mail
e. None of the above

6. What is the default lease time of a DHCP server?


a. 2 days
b. 4 days
c. 6 days
d. 8 days
e. Unlimited
7. A device that operates at Layer 3 and up is called a _
a. Switch
b. Router
c. Hub
d. Gateway
e. None of the above
● Gateway - operates at layer 3 and up; a dedicated router with additional functionality
(firewalls meaning layer 6, or dedication to a specific protocol such as email gateway)
● Switch operates on Layer 2
● Router is only on Layer 3
● Hub operates at Layer 1

8. This device operates at data link layer


a. Switch
b. Hub
c. Router
d. Gateway
e. None of the above

9. This server or device processes the assignment of a TCP port number to each ongoing
session between a local host and an internet host.
a. DHCP
b. Router
c. NAT
d. Gateway
e. PAT → (​port address translation) - very close to NAT but based on port number

10. IGMP (another version of ICMP) operates at the __ layer of OSI model to manage
multicasting
a. Network
b. Transport
c. Session
d. Physical
e. Application
ICMP - ping a computer, the reply of that ping (success/fail) is done by ICMP
IGMP - a multimedia version of ICMP

11. A TCP handshaking is processed in __ steps


a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
e. 8
Midterm Review 3 (Chapter 3)

1. ICMP and IGMP protocols belong to which of the following OSI layers?
a. Presentation
b. Session
c. Application
d. Network
e. Transportation

2. Which of the following protocols is a connectionless oriented protocol?


a. HTTP
b. IP
c. HTTPS
d. UDP → Best answer
e. TCP

3. Which of the following IP addresses is referred to a loopback address?


a. 10.1.1.1
b. 172.16.0.1
c. 192.168.0.1
d. 224.0.0.1
e. 127.0.0.1

4. Which of the following IP addresses belong to the multimedia range of addresses?


a. 10.1.1.1
b. 172.16.0.1
c. 192.168.0.1
d. 224.0.0.1
e. 127.0.0.1

5. Which of the following IP addresses is an APIPA address?


a. 169.254.1.1
b. 172.16.0.1
c. 192.168.0.1
d. 10.10.10.10
e. 127.0.0.1

6. Considering the IP address of 192.168.1.154 and its default subnet mask


(255.255.255.0) which of the following is the host address?
a. 192
b. 154
c. 192.168
d. 192.168.1
e. 192.168.1.154
IP address contains network address and host address, to separate them you use the subnet
mask.
The first number (255) is network address, the remaining is host address set as 0
● 154 is the host address, the first three are network address

7. What is the port number of SMTP?


a. 110
b. 22
c. 25
d. 124
e. 53

8. Which of the following protocols can be used to read or download an email?


a. SMTP
b. POP3
c. FTP
d. IMAP4
e. Both B & D
● IMAP4 is the outlook version
● POP3 is the popular standard generic

9. Given the IP address of 129.29.139.20 and its default subnet mask (255.255.0.0) what is
the network address?
a. 20
b. 139.20
c. 29.239.20
d. 129.29
e. None of the above
● 0.0 in the subnet mask means the first 2 numbers are the network address - rest is host
address

10. A TCP/IP socket is defined as:


a. IP Address
b. Port Number
c. UDP
d. TCP
e. Both A & B

11. Which of the following servers can be placed in the DMZ?


a. Web
b. FTP
c. Email
d. DNS
e. All of the Above
12. Dynamic IP addresses are automatically assigned by a ___ server.
a. DNS
b. VPN
c. NAT
d. DHCP
e. All of the Above

13. The following IPv6 setting is referred to ass:

a. Broadcast
b. Multicast
c. Anycast → A version of multicast
d. Unicast
e. None of the above
● Multicast requires some form of registration to access
● Anycast does not require registration

14. What is the port number for LDAP:


a. 69
b. 168
c. 143
d. 3389
e. 389

Midterm covers chapters 1 to 5


● Midterm is open book

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